I would like to sing the praises of a power crew from Georgia Power. They were busting their asses to get power back on for Atlantic Beach. Unfortunately, outside the military, police and FDs, it is rare to see some people who are professional, diligent, and risking their lives, for not only people they don't know, but doing it two states removed from their hometowns. Restores faith in this country. (of course, you are talking about fellow Southerners, so I shouldn't be too surprised ;)
I know exactly what you are saying. Following Isabel, Conectiv Power (now back to being called DelMarVA power) was attacked by people in northern Delaware for slow response.......but the only complaints were in northern Delaware - there were folks in central and southern DE, and on the Eastern Shore of MD that were without power (same company) for far longer. Even businesses here on the VA Eastern Shore didn't scream about it.
I wrote an article about the different reactions between urban and non-urban residents to power outages.........the paper I wrote it for never printed it.